| Entry: | A floor is a floor is a floor is a floor. Or is it? In Catal, more specifically B.102, a floor layer can be extremely hard to define (although sometimes it will just lay itself out before you, like a very nice rug - this is, as you may already know, a very nice sensation). Layers by layers of managing their floors, the Catal people might as well had refined one floor several times a year. I mean, it is a question of resolution when trying to define what is one floor. By this logic, floors should perhaps be considered features. But here it is more of a question of interpretational level in the defining of an unit. Resolution is an issue archaeologists will always have to deal with, but it is certainly so that Catalhöyük archaeology often can offer us high resolution in our data. The single context in B.102. right now is more clear on a theoretical level, than on a practical. What the human eye (mainly my human eye) can take in and recognize at once has got a limit. It is based on routine, amount of energy, degree of sun light, the similarity of soil, daily mood, amount of insect bites, lost pencils and confused unit sheets, all of which is combined in a, like we (I) say in Sweden, sacred mess. |
